Agenda And Minutes Religious Advisory Committee To The Services 2024 To 2026 1327/25/26 – Documents

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The Religious Advisory Committee to the Services (RACS) held a meeting on 12-13 November 2024 at Russell Offices, Canberra. The committee comprises representatives from ten faith traditions (Anglican, Buddhist, Presbyterian, Catholic, Jewish, Sikh, Hindu, Uniting Church, and Islamic) plus Defence personnel. Minutes reveal RACS's primary activities include reviewing character and ethics training policy, establishing a communications subgroup, developing a survey on spiritual wellbeing, and updating strategic plan priorities. Defence officers briefed the committee on a Ministry of Affairs review. Key actions assigned include inviting the Army Chaplain-General to discuss ethical training at the Royal Military College, raising RACS's role in ethics doctrine with the Chief of Defence Force, engaging the Spiritual Wellbeing Directorate on survey questions, and preparing an information paper on faith approaches to moral injury and suicide prevention linked to Royal Commission recommendations. Extensive redactions (s47F, s47E(c)) obscure individual names and specific Defence personnel identities throughout the document.